Africa's Pre-Colonial History

History is about the past, the people, their achievements and setbacks. This research paper addresses the rejecting of Africa 's pre-colonial history. The analysis revolves around ignorance, arrogance, libel, and division. It is a study of the fifteenth-century religious and nineteenth-century philosophical views responsible for the suppressing Africa’s pre-colonial history. Long before the ancient ruins were buried by the desert sand and the vegetation Europeans found a subtly way to bury Africa’s history. They fabricated a legacy or history that separated Africans from other civilizations. By simply disregarding the continent past Europeans created a people without a history. The research for this paper examines the underpinning and earliest …show more content…
Some of the information dates back to the eighteen hundred on the past explorations of Dr. David Livingston, Mungo Park, and Henry Morton Stanley. The use of nineteen and twentieth-century primary sources provided evidence that helped to identify and verify African pre-colonial history. By using the data collected, this paper will give the reader an understanding on how African pre-colonial history was rejected by nineteen-century Europeans scholars. The reader will be able to understand why the suppressing fragmented African history, together with the progress and the reason for the implementation. In the end, the reader will have a new understanding of the importance of Black History Month and the existing calls for printed versions of the various peasant communities, nations, and regions of the African …show more content…
An example is William Harvey Brown 1899 book On the South African frontier; the adventures and observations of an American in Mashonaland and Matabeleland which is a strong display the nineteen-century trite literary image that was put forth of Africa. Twentieth-century historians questioned incomplete account of both Asian and African history in academic books that were depicted as world history. British historian, writer and Africanist Basil Davidson, British-born Ghanaian-American A. Kwame Appiah and Vincent B. Khapoya, an authority on ancient African social, cultural and political organizations are some of the many twentieth-century historians who have publish work to expose the Western discourses suppression of Africa’s past. Davidson, book A History Of Africa 1000-1800 speaks of the great trading empires of Sudan, the religion and general economy of West